LINKS FOR A WARM AND SUNNY UNPRODUCTIVE SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Outside right now it's 86 degrees and humid. Conditions are only a bit milder in my apartment, with the AC on full blast. I haven't closed the heavy balcony doors in days. Only the screen keeps the critters out, and then not always perfectly. Last night was a party in the hood hosted by NFLL and Digital Influence. Transportation was provided by Beltway Buzz in partnership with a shady cab driver who pulled over at one point to trade jokes with his friends. Drank lime-less Coronas and gobbled not-yet-set Jello shots. Met UberMeg. Shady cab driver picked us up again, only to deposit us far from U Street, down by the Sign of the Whale in the so-called Golden Triangle. Altogether there was too much walking back across town as the bars closed last night. Today, I made chicken and rice and watched baseball.

The Nationals have won their 4th straight game, battling back impressively, even astonishingly, after a series of injuries and falling under .500 a week ago. Not only that, by beating the Marlins again today, they've retaken first in the National League East for the first time since early April. Better yet, the one-run wonders won 6-3, partly on the strength of two runs by MLB Rookie of the Month Ryan Church (who took a friendly pie in the face from Jose Guillen while being interviewed on the field minutes after the game).

And now, some links:

• Like Jack T. Chick, but better.


• One of the interns writing for DCist over the summer has bested me on a bit of knowledge about my very own street here in SoCo (the one with all the shootings, mercury and restless water mains) — a far-reaching 1970 D.C. Circuit ruling on tenant law was based on a case involving the HUD-renovated monstrosity diagonal from me across the street. Exciting!


• After reading this, I still don't like Andrea Dworkin, but I guess I actually feel sorry for her.


• Repeating Myself, a blog by an American contractor based in Kuwait.


• A depressing vision of the post-Bush Democrats from former New Left leader Todd Gitlin, who apparently has become a liberal moderate.


• Hats off to Brian Beutler, who has a byline in the Washington City Paper this week.


• Just do what the title says.


• Pitchfork tells me that Warner Bros. has signed Rilo Kiley and is reissuing their latest LP, "More Adventurous." I have my doubts about the likelihood of its chart success, not to mention that "Portions for Foxes" could pop up on all the wrong television shows (does anybody remember "The Frug" was once used on "Dawson's Creek"?). I would rather see "The Execution of All Things" get a re-release, but it won't happen.

NW looking southeast from such great heights via DCist Photos; charging heathen dinos courtesy JWZ.

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posted by WWB at 5:03 PM |